A little honesty about (the real) insta me!

Sometimes a picture paints a thousand words – so here’s a few words about my favourite and most-liked picture from this week, and what actually goes on behind the social media scenes of this instamummy…

Roll back 4 days to the start of our mini heatwave and I thought a little self-imposed garden stay-cation was just what we needed, on the grounds that:

a) It was going to be too hot to push around the buggy.

b) It was going to be too hot to even put the buggy together.

c) I was going to get myself a nice tan from all the glorious quality time we were going to spend outside!

So I whizzed around adding all the finishing touches to my ‘super-fun’ garden set up… we were going to have a GREAT time!

✔️paddling pool

✔️slide going into paddling pool

✔️hundreds of balls floating in paddling pool (yeah I knew I’d regret that one as soon as I did it)

✔️sprinkler ready

✔️new batteries in bubble machine

✔️pavement chalks dug out from the shed

✔️random inflatable monkey, just because

Can’t wait to see my toddler’s reaction!

One teeny tiny thing which was going to p*ss all over my genius super mama plan – hot weather = no ones getting enough sleep = everyone’s acting like they’ve had extra cranky sprinkles on their home-made organic yoghurt and puréed fruit ice creams (yes I made them once, felt great and now am back to ferreting around in the bottom of the freezer in the hope I can find a Mini Milk somewhere that’s still in date…)

ME “Wow look what’s outside in the garden!”

HIM “No thank you mummy I just want to sit on the sofa and watch my videos.”